The role of information technology in human resources management

Abstract

In nowadays top leaders fully realize the power of information technology (IT) tools for reaching business targets. The utilization of IT tools help not only to fulfill defined company's goals but to optimize the work processes as well. Trends and results of the contemporary studies constantly confirm contribution of the IT tools in Human Resources (HR) area i.e. to accomplish assigned HR tasks by using the source of IT capabilities. The following paper gives a brief overview about possibilities of IT usage in HR field for measuring and tracking human capital and using the HR information system generally.